why would portland be beyond their capacity? i want to go back to january of this year when janet mills gave her inaugural address. >> we welcome the voices of newcomers to the public conversation, the young, the immigrants, people of different cultures, all are important members of the maine family. from now on, yes, a sign will greet all of those arriving in our state and it will say simply welcome home. >> laura: isn't that nice? in portland alone, asylum seekers that are primarily from african countries make up 90% of the people living in a city run family and overflow shelters. back to today. when the san antonio manager's request to portland was turned down, the response was jarring. we're working with them to identify other cities throughout the united states where they can go and begin their asylum-seeking process. where are these migrants going to be dropped next? that's anyone's guest. the fact that two cities in two states, thousands of miles apart are both at capacity? should be alarming for all americans. we reached

been witnessing it's all communities american and in a great community welcome to get it portland is a city that is mostly white but the largest group of immigrants are congolese everybody is helping i don't see why i want to i think it's less of a question of citizenship and more of a question of humanity i'm going i'm going here and coming here i came here 2011 and it was take the time my life and everybody's been welcoming willing to teach me willing to help me people in the state of maine are generous having contributed over $400000.00 to a fund to help the newly arrived refugees from africa but it's also a state of older people with the average age being 45 years old one of the highest in the country many of the younger more educated workforce have moved out to seek opportunities in bigger states amanda rector's mains state economist she says the refugees can plug that gap i think universally workforce availability is the challenge we need more people to come into the state. if we can have a more diverse population in the state that's attractive to a lot of people who are younge

oregon where she serves as goalkeeper coach for the portland thorns 19 thank you for joining us what state you make of germany's performance in this match yeah well i'm very happy. that. reached the quarter final 1st. and so 1st so we can be very happy. and sweet and nil. i think it's better to go let's go i think overall we can be very happy for now looks like we have a few connection issues but alexander pop she scored in her 100th game for germany how important is she going forward now for the team's hopes in this tournament. she will be absolutely amazing she she's very quickly she's very vocal she's a boreal she's fight on the pitch she's absolutely able to score in very important moments so i think i don't know what's going to happen in the next games but if the team is talent she can be the one who steps up and scorched important goal and yeah yeah it's the team a lot of holes in security now that 3 nothing when today means germany move on into the quarter finals they will face either sweden or canada you've been watching this team play how does germany match up with those 2 s

see it was been in portland for a levon months but still is not legally permitted to work. but i'm still waiting for my documents to be able to work and make my life better without work it's a little hard so right now i am volunteering at a place in exchange for a place to stay with children and some food and he says his dream is for his daughter to be able to go to college someday. a human drama playing out in real time far from the southern border but with families from africa just seeking peace gabriel assad al-jazeera portland maine. the leaders of the e.u. have failed to reach an agreement on who will take the blocks top jobs pointed to head the european commission will steer the e.u. for the next 5 years on issues including monetary policy migration and trade leaders will meet again at the end of the month to try to reach a consensus greece and cyprus have urged the e.u. to issue sanctions against turkey after it deployed a 2nd drilling ship off the north east coast of cyprus the vessel is looking for oil and gas and what cyprus says is its territory john says more fr

see it was been in portland for a levon months but still is not legally permitted to work. like the police but i'm still waiting for my documents to be able to work and make my life better without work it's a little hard so right now i am volunteering at a place in exchange for a place to stay with children and some food and he says his dream is for his daughter to be able to go to college someday. a human drama playing out in real time far from the southern border but with families from africa just seeking peace gabriel assad al-jazeera portland maine. still ahead here on al-jazeera defying trump u.s. senators voted to block the sale of arms to saudi arabia and the u.a.e. . requests for oil and gas in cyprus sparks what could become a diplomatic showdown between turkey and the e.u. . and in sport the ferrari team gets some bad news ahead of the french from free. again while here across turkey we have been talking about the new storms of the last couple of days and that is still going to be the trend but there is some good news as we go towards the end of the weekend the wh

see if lisbon and portland for a levon months but still is not legally permitted to work. i'm still waiting for my documents to be able to work and make my life better without work it's a little hard so right now i am a volunteer in a place in exchange for a place to stay with children and some food. he says his dream is for his daughter to be able to go to college someday. a human drama playing out in real time far from the southern border but with families from africa just seeking peace gabriel's al-jazeera portland maine. or. stand well back is the advice that buddhist festivals underway in thailand the neighboring lauer's and low flying aircraft and birds are advised to clear a key keep clear to when hey has been to see why. the people here each rocket sent to the skies is a high velocity message to the gods they're not meant as aggressive or threatening symbols but it did explosive gestures of gratitude some festivals in this region are about wishing for good luck at the start of what they hope will be a bountiful weight season for farmers this one in roy it's north e

been witnessing it's all communities american and immigrant communities welcome to go to portland is a city that is mostly white but the largest group of immigrants are congolese everybody is helping i don't see why i want to i think it's less of a question of citizenship and more of a question of humanity i'm going i'm going here and coming here i came here 2011 and it was take the most awkward it's time my life and everybody's been welcoming willing to teach me willing to help me people in the state of maine are generous having contributed over $400000.00 to a fund to help the newly arrived refugees from africa but it's also a state of older people with the average age being 45 years old one of the highest in the country many of the younger more educated workforce have moved out to seek opportunities in bigger states amanda rector's maine's state economist she says the refugees can plug that gap i think universally workforce availability is the challenge we need more people to come into the state. if we can have a more diverse population in the state that's attractive to a lot of p

al-jazeera portland debate and. time for a quick check of the headlines here this hour u.s. media reports say the u.s. president donald trump all that and strikes against targets in iran but then withdrew the order with planes in the air and ships in position the planned attacks were meant to be in response to iran shooting down a u.s. surveillance drone washington says the drone was shot down in international airspace but iran disputes this. and iran's foreign minister has released a map saying the drone was intercepted off violated iranian airspace to iran says it was shot down thanks to southern iraq. congressional leaders and the u.s. president trying to proceed with caution. we have an untrustworthy adversary the hi kanchan wires are up in the region for a lot of different reasons some by lateral region some. are. 3rd we must act in a way that does not that does. and does not escalate the tensions and the situation the. thousands of demonstrators in hong kong are occupying roads around police and government buildings they want the full withdrawal of a controversial extr

al-jazeera portland maine. the u.n. office in uganda says it's struggling with an influx of refugees from the democratic republic of congo at least 4000 people are flat there to escape fighting between rival hema and lendu militias in a tearing province some are being resettled in a refugee settlement from where harmattan reports. it's been 2 days since of noir family at the chung wali refugee settlement 2 of her 5 children aged 4 and 7 didn't survive the journey from the north east of the d.c. to western uganda what they needed for nike india when the fighting started we ran to the boat in the panic one child fell into the water and drowned another child died because we had no food or medicine that's when i said if i stay in congo the whole family will die. conditions in uganda are basic but the refugees are grateful hungary's forces have been deployed to fight militias in the area around the town of juco it's an eternity the province at the center of the current into ethnic conflict one challenge the congolese army is

as we report, from portland. was not a but rather a matter of survival democratic native republic of congo. he tells me police officers back him in the stomach, mistakenly thinking he was taking part in anti-government protests. he decided the danger was too much for him and his family. earlier this year they left the drc boarding a boat for south america in search of a better life in the u.s. at one point they walked through the jungles of colombia for food.days with no [speaking foreign language] translator: we were very hungry our food ran out. so i would grab a banana off a fire, cook the banana so we were able to sleep. that's all we had. reporter: his 8-year-old daughter jessica witnessed something along the journey that no child should have to see. [speaking foreign language] translator: one night people were trying to cross the river, but the water was strong. some people died. this. reporter: nearly five months later, this is home. a few cots in a makeshift shelter in a gymnasium in portland, maine, 3,70

for more, we go to portland, oregon, where we are joined by oregon democratic state representative karin power. she is co-chair of the state's joint committee on carbon reduction and co-sponsor of the cap and trade bill. welcome to democracy now! what is going on in your state? republican legislators, currently some have fled to idaho, and you have the far right militias threatening the state capital so it would -- was shut down this weekend? >> yes. i democratic leadership in the house and senate issued a statement last week condemning any threats of violence toward our state police and comments that would make our state capital unsafe -- the senate republican leadership has said out to the media that they are

when we drove from the airport into portland.e never seen anything like that -- this beautiful river and then the lights. >> jimi gets a gig as a vineyard manager, and in his spare time starts his own brand of wine. he enlists the help of a friend, chris williams, who until that point was not a winemaker, but a motorcycle mechanic. >> jimi's whole goal was to be able to make wines that people enjoyed, make wines that we enjoyed. >> but while jimi's focused on his career, his marriage to bozena turns bitter. in 2000, they divorce. they agree that pascal will spend every other weekend with his dad. on many a saturday, jimi takes pascal to work. your dad tried to pull you into this as a kid, right? he wanted you around? >> whenever i was with him, it was more for the fact that i was with him and he was happy that i was there. >> what do you remember about your dad? >> i remember waking up, and it'd be cold and early, and we'd get into this dilapidated truck, and we'd stop for coffee and a cinnamon roll early in the morning. >> by 20

amy: we will go to portland, oregon for the latest. and we look at the growing controversy over joe biden's refusal to apologize for his recent praise of segregationist senators. bone in is not a racist my body. i have been involved in civil rights my whole career, period. period, period, period. amy: we will speak to longtime author and education activist jonathan kozol about his recent piece "when joe biden collaborated with segregationists." all of that in more, coming up. democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. president trump imposed news sanctions against iran monday targeting the supreme leader ayatollah ali khomeini, and announced forthcoming sanctions on iran's top diplomat, foreign minister javad zarif. iranian president hassan rouhani derided the announcement, saying -- "you sanction the foreign minister simultaneously with a request for talks?" while zarif tweeted -- "donald trump is 100% right that the u.s. military has no business in the persian gulf. removal of its forces is fully in line with intere

portland maine nearly 200 venezuelan migrants have been left stranded along the border between chile and peru they were denied entry into chile earlier this week both countries have been tightening visa requirements make it a challenge for hundreds of families trying to escape poor living conditions. a russia has suspended passenger flights to and from georgia following and he russian rajah protesters tried to storm parliament when russian politicians were allowed into the chamber on thursday 1st you're welcome has more from the capital tbilisi. are protesters in georgia have to keep grievances against their government its handling of russia's occupation of 20 percent of georgian territory and its heavy handed response to the demonstrations use a show here of solidarity for those blinded by rubber bullets in thursday's police crackdown. the violence began after opposition m.p.'s heckled russian deputies invited into georgia's parliament georgia has had no diplomatic ties with moscow since its war with russia over south of setia in 2008. later clashes between protesters and police wer

and that low continues to just turn off of portland, coos bay. and as it does, that is sending in bands of higher clouds and also patchy low clouds. i actually had a few sprinkles yesterday at the giants game. this will clear out. and then we'll have mostly sunny skies. 50 it's temps, though, on the cool side. upper 40s. 47. pem grove, 46. heels burg, 48. still not as robust or fresh as yesterday. but an onshore wind continues to the delta. patchy, low clouds. and overall, this system will be slow to kick out. so temperatures will be on the cool side for a few days here with gradual warming. 60s and 70s. >>> 4:01. it's on a thursday. and sal is here to tell you that -- >> things are off to a good start. >> well, good. >> yeah. things are off to a good start. if you get on the road early, this is why you do it. because you don't have any slow traffic here on the altamont pass. which is slightly unusual. look at this right here. looks good, all the way out to castro valley. so we won't complain much for now. as you get out toward the hayward area.

. >>> new this morning, passengers on a flight from sfo made an unexpected stop in portland. look at this video sent to us by a viewer. alaska airlines flight 1323 from san francisco to seattle, was diverted to portland late last night. the cabin filled with smoke. firefighters were waiting for the plane when it landed. no reports of injury. we're still waiting to find out why there was smoke in the cabin. >>> biden has events scheduled in four cities in iowa today and tomorrow. president trump is scheduled to attend a fundraiser and visit an ethanol plant. it's the first time the two will campaign in the same state on the same day. >>> former red sox star, david ortiz is in boston now this morning, continuing to recover, just days after he was shot in an ambush, in his native dominican republic. now, ortiz was met by fans when he left the intensive care unit of a hospital. on sunday, ortiz was at the dial bar and lounge when he was ambushed and shot in the back. ortiz was rushed to the hospital, where doctors removed his gallbladder and part of his intestine. his liver was a

she has an opportunity to attend the bilingual officer training in portland at the end of the month. i don't know who you're going to send, but i think it's important for you to send her as she's coordinating all this activity and she has a real handle on what the problems are, so it's a good training. i'd like to be a fly on the wall there, but i think she's someone that really should go, and it's really important that we have lit a fire under language line representative to see if they can work with us and see if we can fix these problems. >> president hirsch: okay. next item, please. >> clerk: line item 1-d, commissioner items and scheduling of items for future commission meeting. action. >> president hirsch: okay. i don't see any. >> commissioner dejesus: oh, i have some. >> president hirsch: commissioner dejesus? >> commissioner dejesus: i talked about having a student representative sitting with us on the police commission. i think i've got it scheduled sometime in july. if we could work it in the second or third week of july. >> president hirsch: we only have two meetings in j

, portland, maine. but when we reached out to portland, maine, they said, please, don't send us anymore, we're stretched way beyond our capacity. so we're working with them, the migrants now, to identify other cities throughout the united states where they can go and begin their asylum-seeking process. now, jerry, in your time with i.c.e., did you ever see anything like this? >> not -- actually not. it has gotten -- it has overwhelmed our resources. our capabilities. it's like what's next? it's -- the agency officers along the border, they're -- they're drinking out of a fire hose right now. they're barely keeping up with their responsibilities. you have a lot of resources that are being dedicated to address with what you're seeing today. my biggest concern is what sacrifice. what is it that we're not doing we should be doing because of all of the attention and resources that are being diverted to deal with this influx. that's what bothers me. and the amount of money that we're spending. >> laura: oh, t

we have a very unseasonably low parked off the portland area. we're not getting anything in the way of cloud cover. we're certainly getting the cooler effects along with the wind as well. i think it's going to thin itself out. patchy low clouds and few high clouds overall. isolated thunderstorms. 50s on temps or 60s for some peninsula and low 50s. that's cool. 52 menalow park over on the coast there. sort of a westerly breeze. even off to the delta all the way out to davis and sacramento. so temperatures not going very far today. 50s and 60s to start. 60s and 70s to end up. look for highs today to stay below average especially inland and that breeze will be with us. temperatures 60s and 70s for a few days. 5:01 and sal's here and he will tell you... >> that we're kind of easing in to a wednesday steve. >> okay. >>> there's a little bit of slow traffic on the altamonte pass. we do have some slow traffic just because i have the computers and back in the day you would never be able to do this. you just put your thing here and see how 14 miles an ho

to discuss just that from portland oregon john hendren reports. if a new generation of rogue architects has their way the era of the concrete and steel skyscraper might be over the future they say lies in a millennia old building material would challenge is actually in the believe it or not not structural it's more of a psychological barriers of getting over there we're working on the new buildings are made with cross laminated timber stronger because the layers of wood are stacked in opposite directions the technology has been used for years in europe wooden buildings like the airy 80 story river beach project in chicago might just be a blueprint for a new era in architecture the reason this is kind of exploding right now is because it's an engineered what technology that uses small diameter. but are combined to make massive panels. wooden buildings go up faster and cheaper a concrete floor takes at least 2 weeks to dry for each story timber weighs 80 percent less than concrete so it takes fewer trucks to deliver the wood which is cut in the fact

. >> in 1944, art opens up a gas station outside portland, oregon, and when the war's over, he wants. >> he was very ambitious and intuitive about what customers would really like to have. >> what he thinks they really want to have is not just gas, but an experience. the eureka moment comes when art learns that altus army airfield in oklahoma is selling surplus war planes -- b-17 bombers, to be precise. >> he said, "you know, i've been kicking around the idea of getting a world war ii bomber and using it as a centerpiece for a gas station." >> jayson scott is art's grandson. >> he thought, "i can end up with a canopy, but i'll also have a roadside attraction that'll draw people to the facility." >> art sets his sights on the right plane, says rob collings, who runs a foundation that organizes living-history events featuring war planes like the b-17. >> it's got a 104-foot wing span, it's 75 feet long, and it has nearly 5,000 horsepower. when this thing was first produced, it was one of the biggest airplanes ever to take to the skies. >> was it very valuable in combat missions? >> yes

portland maine. all right time for a quick check of the top stories here on al-jazeera iran's foreign ministry says it will respond firmly to any u.s. threats on friday president donald trump confirmed he called off an attack on iran saying he wanted to avoid casualties the strike would have been the sponsor iran's downing of a u.s. surveillance drone. when all the reuters news agency is reporting that hundreds of u.s. contractors will be evacuated from an iraqi military base over potential security threats the base which is just north of the capital baghdad was hit by 3 mortar shells last week. 2 other iraqi bases hosting u.s. forces have also been hit by rockets in the past week local officials blamed iran but shia militias for an attack on wednesday in which tehran denied donald trump was nominated army secretary mark esper to be the next secretary of defense early this week acting defense secretary pat shanahan withdrew his nomination after facing questions over his personal life yes but will tak

i'm john hendren in portland where they're building skyscrapers out of wood i'll tell you why coming up . the african union has suspended sudan's membership of the organization in response to the crackdown on protesters by the military more than 100 people were killed this paramilitaries broke up a protest camp the african union's peace and security council says the suspension will remain any effect until power is handed to civilians the a who is also considering imposing sanctions against individuals that it says a responsible for the violence although they haven't yet been identified the u.s. made for that besides that fud it. needed to go through fear to hand over power. authority without any for deadly. measure on individuals and entities that out of stocks in the establishment of this if you know that as you know. the u.s. meanwhile has renewed calls for the resumption of talks to form a civilian led government however on wednesday protest leaders rejected an offer for talks from the military and russia's foreign ministry says that while it supports elections in sudan it opposes

i'm john hendren in portland where they are building skyscrapers out of wood i'll tell you why coming up. the african union is holding an emergency meeting to address the violent crackdown on a protest camp and sudan more than 100 people died in the assault by paramilitary forces so dan thrilling is disputing this figure saying 61 people have died since monday's attack outside the military headquarters and khartoum international pressure on the job to is growing the united nations has announced it is pulling some of its staff out of sudan all the u.k. has warned its citizens against traveling there and it too is removing staff from its and mysie the u.s. meanwhile has renewed calls for the resumption of talks to form a civilian led government however on wednesday protest leaders rejected an offer for talks from the military into russia's foreign minister ministry that is says that while it supports elections being held it opposes any foreign intervention stephanie decker has more now in a warning her report contains images some viewers may find disturbing. the muslim holiday of eid ma

where is portland?re people stepping in to say that's not acceptable, that's not a rally, that's an attack, that's an assault. what we see especially in liberal towns, police stepping back almost into a no man's land. i've been in the middle of antifa rallies before too. ultimately, you're by yourself. so hopefully, they find who these folks are and. jedediah: and it's apparent that it's gotten worse. we saw that with the occupy wall street movement, there was a lot of concern about people getting injured and what not. i don't care whether the protest is left or right, but you have to be able to end journalists in there to cover things, and i see too often with antifa this type of violence that is outpouring, and police should be ready. police in those cities -- ed: there it is right there. jedediah: -- you need to be on guard to protect those citizens because you have to preserve the american right to cover this, freedom to have press, and also the right to protest. ed: we're going to stay on top of th

and it's all because of that low spinning right near portland. but it's a lot of the energy on the back side. a little enhancement. from what we don't usually see this time of year. that's part of the jet stream. bringing in the higher clouds over us. they are beginning to drift a little east and south. so northward, they are gipping to -- beginning to move out. but slow process. peninsula, south bay, east bay. and another photo opportunity for a sunrise pick. that is a really impressive low for this time of year. temperatures have been 10, 15 degrees below average. but the low is finally ing to make -- finally beginning to make its move. 40s, 50s, to low 60s for some. tracy, rio vista. fairfield, san jose. 56, half moon bay. 59, sfo. cooler towards lake port. that's where the clearing is taking place. that's why the lows are a little cooler up there. calisting one at 59. american canyon, vallejo. and 49 at wood acre. that's at 1400 feet. still cool air aloft. water temps, 57, 58. they have come down a teeny bit. a little bit of a breeze. wednesd

i'm john hendren in portland where they're building skyscrapers out of wood i'll tell you why coming out. hello again it's good to have you back what we do have a mix of clouds and rain across much of the levant over the next few days some of those showers could be heavy but we think most of them will be passing in terms of where they are going over the next few days so here across much of the middle east clouds in the forecast heavy rain up here towards eastern parts of turkey but in the overnight hours from friday to saturday maybe a few passing showers here anywhere from aleppo all the way down here towards beirut temporized beirut's again quite nice at about $26.00 degrees a little bit warmer in aleppo at 35 degrees there and then here across the gulf it is going to be hot it's going to dry as well doha 43 degrees as your forecast high really stay like that as we go toward saturday much of the area into the low forty's right now that along the coastal we are picking up a few clouds anywhere from saliva all the way down across yemen maybe have a light shower in those clouds but no

this is a protest that turned violent against a member of the media in portland, oregon.rvative journalist andy ngo was covering right wing protests and then the protesters, it appears that the antifa protesters attacked ngo. he has been covering protests in portland for quite some time and his critics say he's there to cause trouble but that's unacceptable. the fact that he would be bloodied in that way, up acceptable, period. it is important to make that clear. even left wing critics. there's much we don't know yet about all the circumstances but disturbing to see that in portland. >>> quick break here. then another story that's been in the press, a story that didn't get enough attention initially. then received a lot later. she accused trump of sexual assault so hear what this week has been like for e. jean carroll. right after a quick break. ♪ big dreams start with small steps... ...but dedication can get you there. so just start small... start saving. easily set, track and control your goals right from the chase mobile® app. ♪ ♪ chase. make more of what's yours®. wel

i'm john hendren in portland where they're building skyscrapers out of wood i'll tell you why coming up. the west and sponsored by cattle and. well again it's good to have you back well we do have a mix of clouds and rain across much of the levant over the next few days some of those showers could be heavy but we think most of them will be passing in terms of where they are going over the next few days so here across much of the middle east clouds in the forecast heavier rain up here towards eastern parts of turkey but in the overnight hours from friday to saturday maybe a few passing showers here anywhere from aleppo all the way down here towards beirut temporized beirut's again quite nice at about $26.00 degrees a little bit warmer in aleppo at 35 degrees there and then here across the gulf it is going to be hot it's going to dry as well doha 43 degrees as your forecast high really stay like that as we go toward saturday much of the area into the low forty's right now that along the coastal we are picking up a few clouds anywhere from saliva all the way down across yemen maybe have

te >>r: for the pbs newshour and "education week," i'm kavitha cardoza in portland, maine. w druff: ever since the february summit in vietnam between president trump and north korea's leader, kim jong-un, u.s. officials say the two sides have not been talking. but today, president revealed he received a letter from kim. and president trump also extended an olive branch to kimr ise not to spy on him, usinhis family. that news was revealed in a new book out todayinand nick schias that story. >> schifrin: kim jong-un has gone from privilegedf a dictator, to mostly-anonymous student in switzerla, to commander of a military with a thermonuclear bomb, to scribe of what president trump calls w"beautiful letters" to tte house. he is only 35, and leads one of the most opaque countries on t planet. perhaps that's why the c.i.a. recruited his half-brother. the book, out today, reveals that news, and tries to makes clear kim'history and motivations, and also reveals what life is really like in north korea. it is called "the great successor, the divinely perfect destiny of brilliant com

. >> reporter: anita s onge is the director of portland adult education, which serves 2,000 students, mostly immigrants. some were doctors and lawyerin their home countries. others never got a chance to go school. st. onge says they offer classes from 8:00 in the morng to 8:00 at night. >> some of our classes have 30 in a classroom, so they're quite full. our stents have lives. they have children, they have families, they have jobs. sometimes they have two and three jobs. >> i have a fever. >> reporter: this beginning english class allows students to practice spebeing. >> i remthe challenge we have to arn one word everyday. >> reporter: 27-year-old divine mushiya is from the democratic republic of the congo. >> all i knew to say was "hi" and "good morning!" even when you go out and peoplen trtalk to you, you cannot answer them, because you don't un that was really hard. >> reporter: she starts work in4 a factory 0 in the morning, so she can come to classes at night she's slowly getting more fluent. >> wheyou learn english outside, you don't know vocabulary, how to use correctly thword

portland, miami. >> portland. >> i'm going to say portland. >> ay. u would be correct. 96.miami is going to be 90. only 1 degree above normal. >> but it's a wet heat. >> this is the tie breaker. sacramento and charleston. >> sacramento. >> charleston. >> 100 today. that's 12 degrees above noal. while charles ton will only be 82. 5 degrees below normal. and we've got record highs out west. seattle, portland, medford. 102 degrees. that's 12 degrees above average. for today we're looking at a sizzling 112 in phoenix. fresno,103. las vegas 107. by the end of the week, temperatures do getack to normal. that's what's going on around the country. here's what's happening in your neck of the woods. >> while we track extreme heat in the west, below normal h temperaturese for us. we're running about 5 degrees below normal on your wednesday with a high of 78. increasing cloue ining cloud co to keep the temperatures cool today. rain moves in overnight tonight. we'll then likely be dealing with two wavesai of tomorrow. some showers and potentially heavy pockets of rain tomorrow morning.

al-jazeera portland to bain. hundreds of thousands of people have been forced to leave homes in the democratic republic of congo due to intercommunal fighting rival militia from the hammer and lendu ethnic groups of fighting in the mineral rich it truly region around 4000 crossed the border into uganda this month alone some of them are being given sanctuary in the chang wiley resettlement count. is the. john wiley refugee settlement has been around for decades some of the new arrivals are setting up temporary structures the one with the wide canvas is finished these men over here are putting up a new one these will be for the elderly because they're near the road which means it will be easier access people have been telling us how they managed to escape the d r c one woman said when their village was attacked the family ran to get a boat nearby but in the commotion and panic one the children fell into the water and drowned but the family had to keep on going because there's no food or medicine another child died

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it's the sacramento kings, the mavericks, the brooklyn nets, the portland trail blazers and the heat. please rank your popcorns. >> i'll rank my popcorn. that one is there. >> okay, so number five. >> yeah, i'll probably go there, four. >> portland trail blazers, four. >> dallas was good. >> t.j. you're listening? >> i'm listening. >> dallas gets number one according to michael. >> brooklyn is great. >> brooklyn is great. going for number two. >> i'm sorry. i keep messing up. >> there we go. >> so, t.j., michael has now ranked them fifth place went to sacramento. first place went to dallas. what do you say? what did steph rank his popcorns? which order? >> okay, if stray already has five, sacramento and one dallas he is right in line with steph curry. this is steph's list. number five, sacramento kings. >> you got it. >> number four -- >> okay. >> -- the portland trail blazers. number three, steph has the miami heat, number two the brooklyn nets. >> yes. >> no way. >> and one, dallas mavericks. how does stry stack up? >> and the number one -- >> the dallas mavericks, yes. >> number on

. >> that's because not only did his 23-year-old son just graduate from portland state university, hede him. here's abc's tom llamas. ♪ >> reporter: this is the portland state university graduation ceremony that happened today. >> don sheeran. >> reporter: that's 58-year-old don sheeran, graduating. what makes this a really special father's day for don? >> jacob sheeran. >> reporter: he's getting to graduate with his 23-year-old son jacob, both getting engineering degrees. that's right, father and son went to college together. >> it was crazy at first. middle school, he decided to do it. >> reporter: for 22 years the father of three, working as a network technician for a portland communications company. he decided that instead of retiring, he wanted to follow his dream and head back to college. >> but my job is physical. i realized i wouldn't be able to do this into my 70s. i always wanted to be an inventor. >> at 58, don wants to be an inventor. so he set out to get it done. forming stronger bonds with his son having a class together. >> he actually alerted me that a final was sooner

the real thing is the ideological factions that are in the dominant position in california, portland, seattle. they don't want to say there is an addiction crisis. i will conflict with the social justice ideology that the homeless are the virtuous victims of the oppressive society. they want to avoid stigmatizing the i diction. so rather than going into this with clear eyes they ignore it. if you go to the mayor garcetti website in l.a. he has outline of the six causes of homelessness and not one of them is drug addiction. they adopted policy of the denial and deflection. the result on the street is not working and catastrophe. >> tucker: they are liars and idealogues. christopher, thank you for that clear-eyed analysis. appreciate it. >> thank you. >> tucker: well, last week she compared them to racist. this week senator kirsten gillibrand says that the pro-life people shouldn't be allowed to be judges in this country. huh. so by saying something that dumb does she get the democratic nomination automatically? we'll tell you after the break. people, our sales now apply to only 10 fram

portland could see a record of 97 their record high right now is 93 we are looking at 112 in phoenix. story foe day.at the weather now a closer look at your day ahead. in the southwest, we'll see storms bubble up again temperatures right around nor l normal look at the temperatures in the plains looking good with lots o sunshine some rain in the ohio valley looking at some umbrella weather returning to the northeast tomorrow >>> in today's quick hits, the a hedged stocker of kendal jenner has been deported to canada. john ford was sent back to his home country after two convictions. >>> kroger will ll cbd in nearly 1,000 stores including creams, balms and oils >>> pam pers announced ty will provide 5,000 baby changing tables to men's rest rooms nine out of ten dads have gone into public rest rooms that dn't have a changing table we'll be right back. burying the smell in a flowery fog. switch to febre air effects! febreze eliminates even the toughest odors from the air. and it uses an all-natural opellant to leave behind a pleasant scent you'll love. use anywhere odors can spread. fres

moving into portland, spokane. into parts of idaho and parts of montana. we get the part of that system that digs in. and that picks up the wind. highest today will be below average today. livermore, especially the inland areas will take the plunge. 75 should be closer to 81. today, low clouds. although there's some breaks over those low clouds over sfo. sun, wind and cooler conditions. you can see the low cloud deck is there. but when you get such cool air aloft, that tends to knock down the support for the fog. i think it will get chewed up here. 50s, 60s on the temps. calistoga, 51 degrees. one observation. 52. bodega bay at 53. tiburon at 53. even kelseyville. that's pretty cool. travis, 29. gusts to 36. and 40 miles per hour. west wind. napa. west/southwest at oakland. and it's due southeast for san jose, mountain view. and south sfo to half moon bay. these are cooler directions for most. there are certainly microclimates where a south wind works. and some areas where it's a nice pattern. just depends on how the wind works for you. but low clouds will

off of portland now. starting to make its way inland. clouds are to the north.ut still over most of the bay area. which will allow for a nice sunrise. as this system begins to eject out. then high pressure in. so it's a slow, slow process. low 50s, and also low 60s for many. you can see that's the leading edge. and back edge of that cloud cover, gips to move toward the east and south. look for high clouds in the morning. and then mostly sunny this afternoon. there will be a little breeze. until this system kicks out of here, which won't be until the weekend. 60s, 70s and low 80s. 6:32. sal is here. and he is going to talk about the lighter commute, steve. >> okay. >> but i also want to warn you, if you think it's going to be this way all day, i don't think that's the way it's going to be. this is a look at the westbound bay bridge. it's light. obviously not a regular commute. i think what people are doing is gearing up to take off. some people have next week off. or at least a few days anyway. thursday is the 4th of july. we'll see what happens. but i think it's

, maine, but will he reached out to portland, maine, they said please don't send us any more. we are already stretched way beyond our capacity, so we're working with them, the migrants, now to identify other cities throughout the united states where they can go and begin their asylum seeking process." now, jerry, and your time with i.c.e., did you ever see anything like this? >> actually not. it has gotten -- it has overwhelmed our resources, our capabilities. it's like what's next? the agency -- barely keeping up with their responsibilities. you have a lot of resources that are being dedicated to address what you're saying. my biggest concern is, at what sacrifice? what is it that we are not doing that we should be doing because of all the attention and all the resources that are being diverted to deal with this influx. that's what bothers me. the amount of money that we are spending. >> laura: the money, the regular taxpayers, and dan, you touched on this with the now california providing health care to adults 19 to 25 years of age. that's also a shock. the transformation po

portland, miami?correct. 96. >> wow. >> 25 degrees above normal miami is going to be 90. one degree above normal. here is the final, this is a tiebreaker sacramento versus charleston >> got to go with charleston >> sacramento. >> savannah is right 100 today. that's 12 degrees above normal while charleston will be 82, five degrees below normal. and out west record highs. that big dome of high pressure dominates. records today seattle, portland, medford, redding 102 degrees, 12 degrees above average. today a sizzling 112 in phoenix. fresno 103 las vegas 107. the end of the week temperatures >>> good morning. i'm meteorologist kari hall. very hazy start to the day. and some drifts of smoke. it will be unhealthy in terms of our air quality in the tri-valley. elsewhere, moderate air quality today. and we are in san francisco upper 70s. san jose reaching 95. and 99 in concord today. we will start to feel much better tomorrow with upper 80s. even better going into the weekend. in fact, saturday is the best d

-- 200 in portland, oregon. >> the country is just not behind this.remember when president clinton was impeached back in 1998, 1999, his approval ratings went up after impeachment. the republican house, they lost seats, and speaker gingrich lost his job. this is just not good politics. the people of the united states will see that this is just partisan politics at its worst, and they're not going to support it. elizabeth: let's switch gears. house oversight committee is going to vote wednesday whether to subpoena kellyanne conway over alleged violations of the hatch act which says you can't do political activities if you're a federal worker. now this, "the washington post" breaking news saying the white house is going to stop kellyanne conway from testifying. your take on all of that. >> well, of course, congress has a legitimate oversight role, but there comes a point when legit mate oversight gets into harassment. and i think that it's very possible this has reached the harassment stage. elizabeth: thank you so much. a quick note on one of our earli